Mathieu est écrivain public dans un quartier populaire de Montréal. Depuis plusieurs années, il y découvre que son rôle est bien plus humain que littéraire : il écoute les maux et trouve les bons mots. Ressentant le besoin de raconter ce qu’il a vécu, il écrit un premier roman inspiré de son expérience. La critique est dithyrambique, mais la publication dérange son employeur qui le renvoie sur-le-champ. Mathieu veut continuer d’aider, mais il se sent de plus en plus divisé entre deux univers : le communautaire d’un côté et le culturel de l’autre. A-t-il volé ces histoires pour se bâtir une carrière d’auteur ou utilise-t-il le pouvoir des mots pour sensibiliser le public aux sans-voix?

Mathieu is a public writer in a poor neighbourhood of Montreal. In the past years, he discovered that his job is more about people than literature. He must first listen and then finds the right words for those who can’t write. Feeling the need to tell what his story, he wrote a first novel inspired by his experiences. The critics love it, but the book bothers his employer who immediately fires him. Mathieu wants to continue to help, but he feels more and more divided between two worlds: one is to be a public writer and the other one is to only be a writer. Did he steal the stories of others to build himself a career as an author or is he using the power of words to educate others about the voiceless?